Safety overhaul at Dubbo saleyards

The Dubbo Council says it has overhauled procedures at the regional saleyards to improve safety for people working and visiting them.

It comes as a woman was rammed by a cow, while yarding animals at the facility recently.

Council's Corporate Development Manager, Ken Rogers, says incidents are rare with two people being injured during the last three years.

He says council and Workcover are working to ensure people attending the saleyards go through a proper safety induction.

"Our main concern that we share is not so much for the people that work there regularly, who generally know and understand what goes on but infrequent visitors and users who come to the yard maybe once or twice a year and not be familiar with the operations," he said.

"They're the ones that our primary focus are at the moment and I guess this young lady being new to the job falls under that category somewhat."

He says they're looking at using social media to better inform people about procedures.

"We're looking at a video that has been developed by the Australian Livestock Markets Association as a generic safety induction procedure for visitors to saleyards.

"We're looking at promulgating that via Facebook through the agents association to all of their buyers and producers so that at least they will be able to do a self induction before they get to the yards."